“…In Japan, a study estimated that millions of workers were exposed to high noise levels in their workplaces with more than 40 dB hearing loss at 4 kHz (Miyakita and Ueda, 1997). Prolonged noise exposure has been associated with a range of adverse auditory and non-auditory effects, including noise-induced hearing loss, tinnitus, disorders of the endocrine systems and the nervous, mental distress, sleep disturbance, stress, annoyance, cognitive deficits, low performance, high blood pressure, and speech interruption (Thurston, 2012;Said et al, 2014;Milerová et al, 2013;Zeydabadi et al, 2019;Hosseinabadi et al, 2019;Alnabih et al, 2021). Exposure to high noise levels may additionally increase the number of work-related accidents experienced by workers (Choi et al, 2005).…”